Zvi Hecker

Zvi Hecker – was born in 1931 in Krakow, grew up in Samarkand, studied architecture at the Technion in Haifa, and painting at the Avni Institute of Art and Design in Tel Aviv. He taught architecture at Laval University in Quebec and at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 1960, he began engaging in practical activities in Tel Aviv and has been working in Berlin since 1991.
His works in Israel include the town hall in Bat Yam in Tel Aviv and the apartments in Dubiner's house (together with Alfred Neumann and Eldar Sharon), spiral apartments in Ramat Gan, the Palmach Museum in Tel Aviv (together with Rafi Segal), and the military academy complex in the Negev Desert.
In Europe, he designed the Jewish school of Heinz Galinski in Berlin and a memorial with symbolic rows of benches for the former synagogue on Lindenstrasse in Berlin (together with Eyal Weizmann and Micha Ullman), a Jewish cultural center in Duisburg, and the Queen Maxima barracks at Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport.
In 1991, he represented Israel with other architects at the 5th Architecture Biennale in Venice and also participated in the 6th, 7th, 9th, and 10th biennales. His work is exhibited in galleries and museums in many countries.
Zvi Hecker has won several architectural competitions. In 1996, he was awarded the German Critics' Prize for Architecture and in 1999 the Rechter Prize for Architecture in Israel. Since 2013, he has been an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. He lives and works in Berlin.

Curators of the exhibition: Tadeáš Goryczka and Jaroslav Němec
Architectural design of the exhibition at the House of Arts in Ostrava: Zvi Hecker